A licensed reactor operator at the Beaver Valley nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania was found to have violated the site’s fitness for duty policy. The determination was made on June 27th, 2014 around 11:31 am. Source: NRC Event Notifications

A employee at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia confirmed positive for a controlled substance during a random fitness for duty test on Tuesday. The licensee terminated the employee’s access to the plant. Source: NRC Event Notifications

Control room operators at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania began shutting down the Unit 2 reactor on Wednesday in order to inspect and replace turbine blades that are suspected to have developed cracks. “We have been monitoring turbine performance closely for the last several years, and continue to work with the manufacturer to […]

Tokyo Electric announced that it has resumed full operation of the ALPS system used to decontaminated radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The ALPS system is designed to process up to 750 tons of radioactive water per day when operating at full capacity. It is the first time that all three lines […]

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been using heavy duty remove control decontamination robots to conduct debris removal operations at the Unit 3 reactor building. Radiation levels inside of the reactor building prevent workers from carrying out the operations directly. Photos released this week show the MEISTeR robot designed by Mitsubishi Heavy […]

In September 2013, Tokyo Electric announced that it planned to drill freeze wells at three feet intervals to create an ‘ice wall’ nearly a mile long at the Unit 2 and Unit 3 reactors, where an estimated 11,000 tons of contaminated wastewater is believed to have collected, in an attempt to stem contaminated water from […]

The Higashidori nuclear power plant in Japan is unlike than any other nuclear power station in the country in that two of the four reactors at the station are operated by the Tohoku Electric Power Company and the other two reactors are operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. Tohoku Electric, who operates the Unit […]

A employee supervisor at the Lasalle nuclear power plant in Illinois failed a for-cause fitness for duty test after confirming positive for alcohol. The licensee suspended the employee’s access to the facility. Fitness for duty tests are administered either randomly, in a lottery-style system where “winners” get to report to the medical office for testing, […]

A supervisor at the Browns Ferry nuclear power plant in Alabama failed a random fitness for duty test on Wednesday after confirming positive for alcohol. The licensee terminated the employee’s access to the facility. Source: NRC Event Notifications

Officials in Vietnam are near the final stages of selecting the nuclear technologies that will be used for multiple nuclear reactors across the country. Vietnam plans to construct 14 nuclear reactors by 2030 to supply roughly 10% of the nation’s total energy supply. In 2012, Vietnam elected to work with the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation of […]

An employee supervisor at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia confirmed positive for a controlled substance during a fitness for duty test. The licensee terminated the employee’s access to the facility. Source: NRC Event Notifications

A licensed reactor operator at the Palo Verde nuclear power plant in Arizona failed the site’s fitness for duty test due to alcohol last Friday during a random test. The licensee withdrew the employee’s access to the facility at this time. Source: NRC Event Notification